Did you know there’s one surefire way to know when a technology has truly jumped the shark? When they start adding it to computer mice.
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Logitech mice users were surprised to find out that after the latest mouse software update, it now contains an “AI” prompt builder tool, so that you can click anywhere and have a little pop-up appear that taps into ChatGPT.
I’m done.
In the past I have encountered students with BA degrees who I couldn’t trust to write a business letter. I guess that will get worse now – with AI doing all the grunt work no-one will learn how to organise information clearly.
Those people are exactly why generative AI is a big deal.
It levels the playing field for the functionally illiterate. There’s money to be made when half the white collar population has a use for your product.
We are going to lose an entire generation.
There, I said it…
The “senior” folks both in sense of age, and career progression are probably safe. At least for now.
The generation after this (Z+1) would probably find their way.
But the current generation is too early to benefit from AI or its down facilities (AGI/UBI), and too late to learn basic skills to build a portfolio.
It is going to be more difficult for new grads to find jobs, and fivers/upworks as well, as GPT can do those basic stuff, while senior folks will reap most benefits (yes, this includes myself).
It does not look good, and I hope I am mistaken.
I think we already lost them during covid. Reading comprehension has gone down that much.
If we did it is not their fault. Their elders were the ones who forced them to go to classes unvaccinated during the height of the pandemic, without enforced masking policies or better air filtering or anything. Govts run by boomers/gen x/millenials dictated from on high that the kids would pay the price, and now they have paid it in permanent disability.
Anyway it pains me how the narrative has swung around. I’m an older millenial, and it seems a very short time ago that news media was full of boomer and gen x editorialists whining about how millenials were a bunch of idiots. Now all I see is millenials talking about how gen z are a bunch of idiots, and I’m just kind of baffled and disgusted. The way elder generations keep turning against younger ones is bleak.
I rather more surprised that there is such a thing as a “mouse software”.
No, that is not some joke about the animals; computer mice shouldn’t come with software in the first place.
Shitty products aside, as everyone tries to cash in, AI is here to stay and will only get more capable. The quicker we all get over the denial, the faster we can adapt.
Your mouse will now require its own processor, 4GB of ram (8GB will be preferred), and its own GPU and NPU. You’ll have to wear heat resistant gloves to withstand the intense heat generated by the chips.
I make use of LLMs by loading up a page in browser. I do not need it to be integrated into the software keyboard, hardware peripherals, or the OS. The way they’re going about it just gives me eerie flashbacks of Cortana / Bixby.
AI buttons aside: I used to buy Logitech mouses (or is it mice?) all the time, especially the silent click ones. But the last 3 years *every* Logitech mouse’s left button stops working after a year?! I used to get 5 years out of them. I bought 4 mouses in 3 years.
Does anyone has the same experience? I stopped buying Logitech
Had the same thing with microsoft mices (or is it mouses?) a decade ago. Now I’m going with HP mouses. They are decent, I can say.
It’s been hit or miss for me. I’ve had to replace the M650 due to dead buttons or scroll wheels three times in two years, yet I have a cheap M310 that has lived for over five years. It even outlived the K540 keyboard it was bundled with and I now use it with a MX Keys keyboard. I was tempted to spend the money on the matching MX Master mouse, but I’m leery of paying that much since it seems the more expensive mice from Logitech are the ones whose buttons will wear out the fastest, in my experience.
I tried M220 M240 M350 and some dual Bluetooth WiFi M500something model and all broke down..
Morgan,
For me it’s always been the scroll wheel that goes. I think it’s because fuzz or particles entering the scroll wheel slot (a lot like the old ball mice). I’ve tried to unscrew it to clean the optical scroll wheel sensors but it wasn’t user serviceable and the scroll assembly couldn’t be taken apart without damage. Given how many times this specific failure mode has happened, it would make a lot of sense for it to be cleanable.
I had some bad experiences with Logi G (their gaming brand), but their office productivity seem very reliable as far as the hardware is concerned for me at least.
For once, I can clearly see how that happened.
Logitech execs, reading about Microsoft’s Copilot key, choke on their coffee: Dammit, it can’t be a key – that functionality clearly requires a mouse button!
This software update is just the first step. Watch out for the next generation of mice…
I find it quite demoralising how companies shove LLM/ML bullshit* into their products while core functionality often have issues.
For example, I *love* the hardware for my Logi MX Keys Mini… but if I rebind keys those keys don’t work for a many many seconds after I awakened my computer. It’s so shoddy (it uses the default behavior instead of your keybind in those seconds!).
I don’t want all this LLM stuff, I just want the basics to work reliably!
MBAs were a mistake.